More from Camp

We're getting nice and used to the camp now. We only have a few more days until all the campers show up, so all the rest of the staff is arriving now, including Kurt's and my roommate, who arrives tonight. We're all having fun though. We've been having amazing meals, which is much better than we were expecting. Any one who has ever been to camp has some idea of what to expect. Here, though, we're eating so well. Yesterday for lunch we had homemade fresh pizza. It was the best pizza we've had in all of Albania, and it definitely rivals most of what I've had in America. We've been destroying their supply of chocolate creme, as well. In Albania, a regular breakfast is bread with spreads on it, one of them being something very similar to Nutella, except without the nut, so I suppose it's just 'Tella. We've been putting it on everything though. It's not often that you have tons of chocalate to put on anything.

We also discovered a new tea, which really reminds me of Cinnabon's frosting on top of their cinnamon rolls. It's the same texture and everything. Kurt and I weren't too sure about it, but Megan definitely loved it. My favorite thing here is the ice cream, or alkullore as it's said in Albanian. There's this full store building with a single soft serve machine sitting in it here. It looks funny to have all that floor space for a soft serve machine, but it's so good and ridiculously cheap! A big waffle cone of it is 30 lek, which is basically a bit more than 30 cents.

I don't know if myself or anyone else has mentioned it on this blog, but it seems like a good time to bring up "old lek" and "new lek". When Kurt and I first asked for ice cream, they asked him for 300 lek, but the charge was actually 30 lek. Somehow, they switch between them like nothing, and it makes a big difference. Old lek is 10 times more than new lek, and if you ask them if they mean old or new lek, they don't actually know what you're talking about. It's really strange. Their other oddity here is that half the population here nods for yes, and the other half nods for no, and everyone that nods for yes says that everyone in Albania does that, and if you ask the others, they will say the exact opposite. It's definitely a little confusing!

Back to the camp, though, we're having a ton of fun. After dinner last night, we all jumped on the trampoline and had a good time launching each other and playing crack the egg/popcorn. Today we we're trained on the ropes course, so we had fun climbing and learning how to run it all, then we got to do the zip line. It was definitely a fun day. Now as I sit here, the Albanians are playing some game they call "beans" and we're all waiting for lunch. Kyla is sitting next to me updating the blog too, so I'll let her take over and say everything I haven't.